Alaska Ping.
According to some, he didn't need that AR though.
It charged, and was stopped by a hunter with his AR15.
Alaska Ping.
According to some, he didn't need that AR though.
Well the liberals will say that is yet another reason to ban the AR-15.
They will say polar bears are endangered because of global warming and we don’t need people killing what’s left of them with assault rifles. blah, blah, woof, woof :-)
Racist.
Makes sense.
More rounds,
Faster handling
Means Better shot placement.
Alaskan Guides prefer pump 12 gauges with sabot slugs and marlin guide gun lever rifles in 450 marlin or 45-70.
Use enough gun. Let’s not go to reduculous limits because it is the most ‘politically incorrect gun’. Enjoy your AR for what it can do.
According to the article it took 7-8 rounds to stop it. If I was going to use an AR15 for bear I would want to upgrade to a larger caliber. That said, griz have been killed with 22LR also. You use what you have when you have to.
So AR-15s cause global warming.
“...Bella Twin, an Indian girl, and her friend Dave Auger were hunting grouse near Lesser Slave Lake in northern Alberta. The only gun they had was Bella’s single-shot bolt-action .22 Rimfire rifle.
They were walking a cutline that had been made for oil exploration when they saw a large grizzly following the same survey line toward them. If they ran, the bear would probably notice them and might chase, so they quietly sat down on a brush pile and hoped that the bear would pass by without trouble.
But the bear came much too close, and when the big boar was only a few yards away, Bella Twin shot him in the side of the head with a .22 Long cartridge. The bear dropped, kicked and then lay still.
Taking no chances, Bella went up close and fired all of the cartridges she had, seven or eight .22 Longs, into the bear’s head. That bear, killed in 1953, was the world-record grizzly for several years and is still high in the records today...”
Attribution: Ammoland 11/17/14
FT. Yukon is over 200 miles from the Arctic Ocean. That was one travelling bear.
Is there a valid reason for you to excerpt from your own site?
I read a lot of bear attack stories in my teens about Alaskan and Canadian guides, hunters and backwoods homesteaders. Quite a few stories of big Alaskan Browns hit right in the brain pan with calibers like .375 H&H, .458 Winchester and .300 Weatherby Magnum that got back up and ran flat out for several hundred yards.
One very memorable story was about a hunter alone on a coastal BC island who put at least 11 rounds of .375 H&H in the chest and gut of a big bear that proceeded to maul him and disappear into the woods.